Anoraak

Anoraak is the melodic undertaking of French performer Frédéric Rivière, multi instrumentalist, vocalist, maker and DJ, previous drummer of Pony Run. furthermore, individual from the Valerie Collective alongside craftsmen, for example, College, Maethelvin, The Outrunners, Minitel Rose and Russ Chimes. Originating from the stone scene at first, he later came to electronic music, beginning Anoraak adjacent to his drummer position.

Background

His music is identified with the retro-synth and 80's motivated scenes as of late featured by the film Drive's soundtrack. His sound is depicted as "fantastic synth-filled tracks that fall some place on the range among disco and new wave", "contemporary yet retro-tinged" or "simple, blustery [...] chugging along on vaporous synthesizers like an end of the week train to the beachside town of Nantes".

Anoraak has teamed up with specialists, for example, the previous Swedish Italo Disco equip Sally Shapiro, American vocalist Slow Shiver, French maker College, Danish artist Lydmor, and has likewise remixed various craftsmen, for example, Neon Indian, Mika, Junkie XL , Wild Belle, Julian Perretta, among others.

Rivière began Anoraak around 2008, when he discharged his introduction collection Nightdrive With You, first constrained to 1000 duplicates, at that point reissued in Japan and Australia. The title track "Nightdrive with You" contacted the whole blogosphere, and got featured on the Myspace US homepage.[16] He initially began to perform in France, and in the long run made it to the USA mid 2009 with a first show at Webster Hall in New York.

Anoraak's second collection Wherever The Sun Sets propelled in 2011. UK's Clash Magazine survey commended Anoraak's blend of italo-disco, outside the box shake, and 80s pop, stating "he does it so well maybe these sounds were destined to be as one in spite of being absolutely unique". Anoraak then grew up to a 3 piece band, playing eminent France's Festival des Inrocks,SXSW celebration in Austin, Texas,[22] Noise Music Festival in Monterrey, Mexico before leaving on The Drive Tour in 2012 with College and Electric Youth in USA and Canada.

In 2013, his third collection Chronotropic turned out, "lead[ing] the path in dusk propelled move fly" as indicated by Nest HQ and portrayed as "new wave vocals on disco" by French magazine Tsugi, immediately pursued by the EP Reworks, elective adaptations of tracks from the album,whose track Guest Star (Rework) was debuted on Rolling Stone. Back as a performance demonstration, he continues performing generally stateside.

Subsequent to discharging in 2015 the single Odds Are Good on the Belgian mark Eskimo Recordings, he returned 2016 with the EP Figure, out individually engrave Endless Summer Music. The title track's video was debuted on British trendsetting website Nowness, and Brooklyn based online production Vehllingo expressed that this EP "embod[ies] the diverse identity attributes of Anoraak's different trials throughout the years". That year he collaborated with Anglo French team Loframes for the track "Since You've Gone" discharged on Los Angeles based name Midnight in Paris

In June 2017, Anoraak discharged Black Gold Sun, portrayed by Australian webzine Acid Stag as "Italo-disco, retro-synth, electro-pop goodness". The video for the track Last Call was debuted on major online French media Konbini.